After a multi-year search, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has announced the selection of Adam Johnson as Music Director, effective July 1, 2023. Johnson, a native of Canada, assume the role as of today, July 1. He replaces Timothy Muffitt, longtime MD and conductor for the symphony, who retired after the 2019-2020 season. Read More →
A new music complex will open in Paris in 2025. The project is currently under construction in the 11th arrondissement, at 69 boulevard de Charonne, on the site of a former electrical transformer. Read More →
Your father composed in many genres of classical music, but he seems to have had a preference for religious vocal music. Where does this come from?
Indeed, if he has always been attached to religious music and vocal music in general, it’s because he sang in choirs from an early age. At the age of 9, he was already a member of a choir at the Institut Florimond du Petit-Lancy in Geneva, singing Compline in particular. His family lived in Geneva at the time, his father working for the League of Nations (forerunner of the UN). Read More →
In Cremona, Italy, Casa Stradivari will reopen on July 4, 2023. Thanks to the restoration and revitalization project initiated by the Casa Stradivari Foundation, the home where the famous luthier lived and worked will once again welcome visitors. It was on July 4, 1667, that Antonio Stradivari, after having married Francesca Ferraboschi, entered the building on Cremona’s Corso Garibaldi in which he set up his first violin-making workshop. Read More →
Riccardo Muti will end his 13-year career as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with concerts June 23-25 and a performance of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. A concert in Millennium Park for the entire city of Chicago will follow on June 27. Now, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) has announced that Riccardo Muti has been named Music Director Emeritus for Life beginning in the 2023/24 season. Read More →
Florence Price: Klavierkonzert + Symphonie Nr. 1 e-Moll + His Resignation an Faith aus Ethiopia's Shadow in America; Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, Klavier, Chineke! Orchestra; 1 CD Decca 485 3996; Aufnahmen 11.2022, Veröffentlichung 23.06.2023 (61'09) - Rezension von Remy Franck
Kaum eine andere Komponistin wird dieses Jahr, dem siebzigsten seit ihrem Tod, so geehrt wie Florence Price. Das Klavierkonzert in einem Satz wurde 1934 in Chicago mit Price selbst als Solistin uraufgeführt. Danach blieb es lange Zeit verschollen. Obwohl es technisch gesehen aus einem Satz besteht, gibt es drei verschiedene Abschnitte, die ohne Unterbrechung gespielt werden. Read More →
Chefdirigent Pietari Inkinen formulierte seine Freude so bei der Vorstellung der Saison 2023/24 der Deutschen Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern: « Wir können endlich wieder aus dem Vollen schöpfen!“ Read More →
After an 18-month search, the Winston-Salem Symphony (North Carolina) announced 30-year-old American conductor Michelle Merrill as Music Director. Merrill replaces Timothy Redmond, who unexpectedly resigned in August 2021, after a little more than two years. Read More →
Manuel de Falla: El corregidor y la molinera + El sombrero de tres picos; Carol Garcia, Mezzosopran, Serena Perez, Mezzosopran, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, José María Moreno Valiente; 1 CD IBS 82023; Aufnahmen 02.2022, 01.2023, Veröffentlichung 16.06.2023 (78'10) - Rezension von Remy Franck
Manuel de Falla komponierte seine Farsa mímica (Pantomime) El corregidor y la molinera in den Jahren 1916 und 1917 nach einem Theaterstück von Martínez Sierra, das auf dem Roman von Pedro Antonio de Alarcón basiert. Read More →
Clarinetist Ivan Valbuena Paez who performs with the San Antonio Philharmonic has been awarded the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture’s Fund for the Arts grant for 2023. Valbuena was selected for the A Dos Music Project, a clarinet duet he co-created with his wife, Luz Sarmiento, DMA, to expand the horizons of Latin music. Read More →
